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 24 The Newspaper World. the mark when he said that the Press, in availing itself of the inestimable privilege of freedom of speech, had made greater advances than any other party in the State. When Queen Victoria began her reign, the whole of the United Kingdom, including the Metropolis, possessed only sixteen daily newspapers. In the year of Her Majesty's Jubilee about 200 journals appeared every day, and the number is yearly increasing. Who will be bold enough to prophesy how great may be the advance of the British Press in the next half century ?